Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
| 2 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 3 | John Jevons , Clwyd 's social services director , says in a report to councillors today that a plan would be thrashed out to best meet the needs of individuals based on the residents ' reaction . |
| 4 | Mr MacMullen , a lecturer in politics at Durham University , believes Labour will bring its biggest guns to bear on the Tories ' record and the Conservatives may no longer be able to rely on traditional Tory vote winners , like defence , management of the economy and crime . |
| 5 | For the NFER project there were three pairs of parallel tests , two pairs were 25-item mental tests , one with and one without the numbers in the questions printed on the pupils ' answer sheets . |
| 6 | Whereas aphids rely on the ants ' normal aggression against predators , the caterpillar administers an aggression-arousing drug and it seems to slip them something addictively binding as well . |
| 7 | Whereas in RX and Pilkingtons union resistance was either negligible or was transformed into active cooperation , at Ford the quality circles foundered on the unions ' dismissal of the initiative as a heavy-handed attempt to short-circuit existing bargaining procedures . |
| 8 | All day long , boys and girls sat on the buffaloes ' backs , lounging in expertly comfortable positions . |
| 9 | Flames appeared on the soldiers ' lances like ‘ fairies ’ lights'' illuminating their path , and they remained lit despite the heavy rain . |
| 10 | It was this drive that led travellers to comment on the Catalans ' capacity to make ‘ soil out of rock ’ . |
| 11 | Some courses draw on the students ' own experience , usually in the workplace . |